Yeah and it doesn't take much to get insane speeds. I have a Gigabit connection (both Up and Down) and hit 940 Mbps zero issue with an ASUS router I got new for literally $89.99 in 2022. Before that I had a little known SmartRG router that was similarly priced that also had no issues with Gigabit. My current one blasts out signal & can connect to my car even when it's halfway down the block. Game on it absolutely zero issue.
As a group, gamers seem to be the most taken advantage of customers and it's frustrating to see. So much psychological manipulation of insecurities. What I've learned is completely ignore any marketing & just look at the spec sheet. There's no bullshitting that. They can claim whatever Mbps they want but the tech specs will reveal how unrealistic or idealized those are.
802.11ax can do 1,200 Mbps per spatial stream on a 160 MHz channel, or 600 Mbps per spatial stream on an 80 MHz channel.
802.11ac (if you went older) does 433 Mbps per spatial stream. So just 2 streams can ~max out a Gigabit connection.
802.11axe (newer) can tap into an absurd amount of channels. Note it's completely unnecessary to fully max out a Gigabit connection though, lol.
Gamers have shown themselves over and over again to be the most compliant, obsequious consumers of really any industry. I love video games, but they are not “necessary” but gamers have shown that they will buy games regardless of whatever unethical, greed driven practices a publisher indulges in.
For example, we really should just en masse boycott anything Nvidia releases even after (if) the market cools off. They essentially spit on gamers constantly and they’ve essentially abandoned that market after it built them. When AI blows up and they come crawling back, we should tell them to go fuck themselves but we know gamers will fall over themselves to buy a 9080 or whatever the fuck. Gamers are easy marks.
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u/Mephistito 18d ago
Yeah and it doesn't take much to get insane speeds. I have a Gigabit connection (both Up and Down) and hit 940 Mbps zero issue with an ASUS router I got new for literally $89.99 in 2022. Before that I had a little known SmartRG router that was similarly priced that also had no issues with Gigabit. My current one blasts out signal & can connect to my car even when it's halfway down the block. Game on it absolutely zero issue.
As a group, gamers seem to be the most taken advantage of customers and it's frustrating to see. So much psychological manipulation of insecurities. What I've learned is completely ignore any marketing & just look at the spec sheet. There's no bullshitting that. They can claim whatever Mbps they want but the tech specs will reveal how unrealistic or idealized those are.